Case Study: Military Portable Communication Service Provider achieves rapid SWAP‑reduction and secure man‑portable communications with Advantech COM Express modules

COM Express modules reduce SWAP (size, weight, and power) in military portable communications

Military Portable Communication Service Provider, a military OEM supplying deployable and tactical communications to the US military and government agencies, needed COTS prototypes that were man‑portable and could be delivered in 30–60 days (with two‑week sample lead times) without minimum order quantities, while meeting MIL feature sets (TPM, ECC, extended temperature) and strict SWAP (size, weight, power) constraints—ATX motherboards could not meet the requirements. They engaged Advantech, which proposed COM Express solutions (SOM-5992 and SOM-6898) and offered embedded computing and BIOS customization expertise.

Advantech delivered the SOM-5992 COM Express Basic and SOM-6898 COM Express Compact modules plus design‑in support to reduce SWAP, add required security features, and meet extended-temperature and quantity needs; the SOM-5992’s four memory slots enable up to 128GB DDR4 for superior virtualization and the SOM-6898’s 7th‑gen Intel processor and security features upgraded visualization servers. By supplying COTS COM Express modules with the correct MIL feature sets and meeting production quantities in record time, Advantech enabled the Military Portable Communication Service Provider to field smaller, more secure man‑portable systems and achieve its fiscal‑year revenue goals.